len deighton

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:57:16 +0000

I know that Python has a len() function that is used to determine the size of a string, but why is it not a method of the string object? len is a function to get the length of a collection. It works by calling an object's __len__ method. __something__ attributes are special and usually more than meets the eye, and generally should not be. From the docs len(s) Return the length (the number of items) of an object. The argument may be a sequence (such as a string, bytes, tuple, list, or range) or a collection (such as a dictionary,. I found two ways to determine how many elements are in a variable I always get the same values for len () and size (). Is there a difference? Could size () have come with an imported library (like...